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Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Envelope from a letter from Alden to his father telling g him he is back from field training and thanking him for the pins.
No full textEnvelope from a letter from Alden B. Richardson to his father, William P. Richardson, while he was in the army during WWII telling him that he is back from his field training, that there is a dance that night and thanking him for sending him pins
Letter with envelope from Alden to his father telling g him he is back from field training and thanking him for the pins
No full textLetter with envelope from Alden B. Richardson to his father, William P. Richardson, while he was in the army during WWII telling him that he is back from his field training, that there is a dance that night and thanking him for sending him pins
Letter with envelope from Alden to his father telling g him he is back from field training and thanking him for the pins
No full textLetter with envelope from Alden B. Richardson to his father, William P. Richardson, while he was in the army during WWII telling him that he is back from his field training, that there is a dance that night and thanking him for sending him pins
Letter from Alden to his father telling g him he is back from field training and thanking him for the pins
No full textLetter from Alden B. Richardson to his father, William P. Richardson, while he was in the army during WWII telling him that he is back from his field training, that there is a dance that night and thanking him for sending the pins him pins
Envelope from a letter from Alden to his father telling g him he is back from field training and thanking him for the pins.
No full textEnvelope from a letter from Alden B. Richardson to his father, William P. Richardson, while he was in the army during WWII telling him that he is back from his field training, that there is a dance that night and thanking him for sending him pins
All-optical signal processing of periodic signals using a Brillouin gain comb
No full textThe amplification of periodic signals using a Brillouin gain comb provides the opportunity to manipulate the amplitude and phase of a signal's individual spectral harmonics and, therefore, its temporal characteristics. In addition to obvious applications in pulse shaping, the approach offers new opportunities in the context of slow-light generation which include power-efficient Brillouin amplification of broadband periodic signals without delay, signal delay/advancement with relatively low gain variation, and fast-light generation accompanied by high levels of gain
A 16-channel reconfigurable OCDMA/DWDM system using continuous phase-shift SSFBGs
No full textWe demonstrate a reconfigurable 16-channel optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA)/dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system (4 OCDMA times 4 DWDM times 625 Mb/s) based on novel 31-chip, 40 Gchip/s quaternary phase coding gratings operating at a channel spacing of just 50 GHz. The system performance is studied for cases of both fixed and code-reconfigurable decoders. Error-free performance is achieved in both cases and for all 16 channels
Slowing of pulses to c/10 with subwatt power levels and low latency using Brillouin amplification in a bismuth-oxide optical fiber
No full textWe report the generation of slow light using Brillouin amplification in a short length of highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber. By using just 2m of fiber, we demonstrate a five-fold reduction in group velocity for ~200ns pulses, which we believe to be a record for a slow-light propagation in an optical fiber. Moreover, by virtue of the high nonlinearity per unit length of this fiber, we achieve this at a very modest pump power level of just ~400mW and with a low inherent device latency of 14ns. These results highlight both the merits and practicality of using high nonlinearity nonsilica fibers for slow-light devices
All-optical pulse reshaping and retiming systems incorporating pulse shaping fiber Bragg grating
No full textThis paper demonstrates two optical pulse retiming and reshaping systems incorporating superstructured fiber Bragg gratings (SSFBGs) as pulse shaping elements. A rectangular switching window is implemented to avoid conversion of the timing jitter on the original data pulses into pulse amplitude noise at the output of a nonlinear optical switch. In a first configuration, the rectangular pulse generator is used at the (low power) data input to a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) to perform retiming of an incident noisy data signal using a clean local clock signal to control the switch. In a second configuration, the authors further amplify the data signal and use it to switch a (low power) clean local clock signal. The S-shaped nonlinear characteristic of the NOLM results in this instance in a reduction of both timing and amplitude jitter on the data signal. The underlying technologies required for the implementation of this technique are such that an upgrade of the scheme for the regeneration of ultrahigh bit rate signals at data rates in excess of 320 Gb/s should be achievable
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